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 Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming back to the Use of Force Ad Hoc Committee

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 meeting. Today is Thursday, September 3, 2020. The first item for consideration on the agenda

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 tonight is the approval of the minutes for August 20, 2020. And if everyone has read

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 the minutes, we'll need a motion and a second. This is Gary. I move. Gary made a motion to

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 approve the minutes. Can I get a second? This is Travis and I second. Okay, Travis. And

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 all in favor with the first and second, raise your hand and hold it up for a second. Willie,

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 are you raising your hand? We can't see you. What are we raising our hands for? Because

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 we're approving the minutes from August 20. Okay, motion carries. Thank you. Next item

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 is item B. Receive a report, hold a discussion and develop findings, conclusions and recommendations

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 related to Use of Force and the Denton Police Department. Sarah, that is you. Okay. Yes,

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 that is me. Good evening, committee members. I sent you an email this afternoon, kind of

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 outlining how this meeting would take place tonight and this discussion would take place

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 tonight as well as the remaining meetings that we have. So tonight, really what we'd

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 like to do is take an opportunity. First, staff wants to thank everyone. We've had the

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 opportunity to sit down with the committee members one on one through the last week and

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 really kind of hear more about what has been your interest, your input. Where do you think

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 there's gaps or opportunities in regards to use of force in the Denton Police Department?

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 And what staff has done is tried to summarize what are some of the common or shared themes

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 that we saw amongst committee members and to use that as a guide to further facilitate

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 some of the committee discussion around recommendations. So I'll be reviewing that document that I

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 sent out to the committee this afternoon just to kind of give you some insight into what

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 staff heard. And then I'm going to be turning over the rest of the meeting to Patrick Ibarra.

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 He is a consultant that we have engaged. He's with the Mohandro Group and he will be taking

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 the committee through further discussion to kind of vet through those items further, whiteboard

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 out, really kind of develop further the recommendations. And Patrick, I'll give you an opportunity

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 to introduce yourself. He has a lot of experience in terms of facilitating meetings and discussions

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 with city councils, city committees, and so forth.

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 Yes, thanks so much, Sarah. And good evening, everyone. Thanks for the opportunity to just

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 give you a quick bio on my background. I'm a former city manager. I spent 15 years in

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 the business before I started my practice, the Mohandro Group. And Mohandro is Spanish.

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 It means getting better all the time. And all my clients are cities, counties, and special

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 districts around the country. I work with a lot of community groups, a lot of elected

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 officials trying to help them sort of unknot the threads and then thread the needle about

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 how they're trying to build a more vibrant community, in particular to community groups,

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 which is a little bit of a different dynamic. My role tonight, and I'll elaborate on this

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 a little bit more, is really trying to help the group have an in-depth, candid, constructive

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 conversation about what these recommendations are. And I would offer to you that these next

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 few meetings are sort of the tough sledding, because you're trying to find the sweet spot

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 around the content without wordsmithing it so much that we lose some people. I'll elaborate

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 a little bit more on my role, but I look forward to working with you. I'm sorry that we're

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 not together in person. We'll make sure this works to the best of our ability. It's a little

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 bit more stilted, but I'm going to show you a few tricks up my sleeve, just so you can

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 feel as though you're going to be actively engaged in what people are saying and then

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 what I'm capturing and then what I'm sharing with you. I think you'll find it to be very

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 helpful. We're going to try to simulate as best we can if we were all in the same room.

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 So I'll turn it back to Sarah.

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 Thank you, Patrick. So I just want to take a few minutes. I'm going to share on my screen

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 that document that I sent out by email this afternoon, and just kind of walk you through

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 what city staff heard from those individual interviews with the committee members, some

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 of the shared and common themes that we tried to capture. The first is in regards to communications.

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 We did hear from a lot of the committee members that they were surprised and not even realizing

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 all of the improvements and changes that have taken place over the last two years since

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 Chief Dixon has taken leadership and that we should be doing maybe a better job of sharing

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 all the good that is going on, all of the culture change, all of the best practices

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 that we're moving towards, all of the initiatives, the accreditation and so forth. And then also

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 turning that into sharing the progress, so understanding that there still is progress

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 to be done and there still is initiatives to be worked on. How do we kind of share that

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 by measurable progress and markers of progress moving forward? There was also suggestions

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 around creating a video series or informational campaign. How do we kind of package this information

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 and bite size pieces that we can put out to the community to give more perspective to

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 how our police department is operating and where they can find more information. The

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 second theme we heard around was engagement. A lot of the committee members commented on

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 what a great experience it was to go through the use of force simulator and really understand

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 what officers go through in the moment in terms and give some perspective and insight

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 into that experience where use of force may be necessary. And so kind of at least opening

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 that up to community leaders and perhaps maybe even to the general public a few times per

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 year. We also heard if we could continue to look at strengthening connections with the

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 community, especially those groups that may be critical or resistant to the police department

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 or law enforcement in general. Having more presence on the universities, more connection

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 to the youth, we heard is a common theme. Since students make up a large population

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 of the city of Denton and also just having more relationship to the city police department

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 and not just the university police departments. We heard about if we could strive to increase

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 our relationships and interactions with certain communities, including the LGBTQ community,

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 people with disabilities and the Hispanic Latinx community. The third major theme we

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 heard around transparency and accountability. So a lot of committee members commented that

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 we have shared so much data with the committee and a lot of great data and info has been

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 compiled and put together. How do we package and distill that information that could be

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 shared with the public in a friendly, consumable way so that the public can also get, learn

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 and have the opportunity to take a look at the things that we've put forward and the

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 data that has been made available. Another suggestion that we actually heard from a few

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 committee members as well is if we could create maybe a biannual report or a regular report

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 in regards to use of force data, complaints and the dispositions. So this is the comments

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 to the really appreciated the matrix put together by Chief Smith and sharing that information.

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 Could that be done on a regular basis moving forward? And then could we provide some insight

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 into how we're reviewing that data, analyzing that data and if there's any narrative that

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 could accompany those reports to learn, has that data informed any further actions or

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 decisions from the police department? We also heard to continue to develop a culture and

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 a standard for officers holding each other accountable. Some comments, you know the surprise

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 to learn that some of the complaints and majority some of the sometimes of the complaints are

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 coming actually from officers reporting other officers actions. Another common theme was

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 in regards to the mental health unit in response. We heard a lot of support for the new mental

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 health division unit that has been formed and really wanting to stay informed and how

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 that unit will be working and wherever possible if this unit could be leveraged as as much

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 as possible in response to mental health calls. We also heard a common theme, a concern for

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 officer wellness, making sure that we have the resources, enough resources and a focus

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 upon our officers mental health and wellness as a way to maybe potentially mitigate use

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 of force situations. So a lot of positive comments are on the peer support team but

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 some questions if there's anything else that could be done to support the officers or a

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 way to develop and monitor and watch for signs that something might be off or wrong with

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 an officer. Another common theme we heard was in regards to training. Overall most of

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 the committee members were impressed by the sheer amount of training that the officers

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 are required to go through in their initial training to become an officer and then the

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 ongoing training as well as the department mandated training. What we did here was if

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 there could be an increased frequency of the mental health training provided to officers

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 so if that could be done perhaps on a mental or on an annual basis. Same thing in regards

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 to cultural and diversity and sensitivity training if that could be provided more regularly

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 to officers. We also heard some interest in increasing training and awareness to engaging

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 people with disabilities and that's both intellectual and physical disabilities. So although we

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 are covering autism training should that training be expanded to cover further intellectual

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 disabilities and not just autism. In regards to policy overall we heard comments that the

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 department is doing well with policies. I'm impressed that process has been put in place

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 over the last two years to update all of the general orders and then continue to update

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 those general orders monthly utilizing the lexical system and best practices and in cases

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 that might be coming out. The committee kind of most committee members commented they feel

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 a little overwhelmed in knowing how to offer if there should be any changes or specific

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 changes to policy language. And then lastly there was in regards to oversight a few committee

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 citizen review under state law and understanding that further and just want to remind the

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 committee that we do have a presentation scheduled for next week on September 10th from our deputy

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 city attorney Mike Kronig who will provide more information at that time. So at this

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 time I'd like to turn it over to Patrick and we're going to he's going to kind of take

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 information at the next meeting. So I'm going to bring down my screen for now.

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 Thank you Sarah. Thanks Sarah and so how I'm going to try to navigate this is I think it

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 helps all of you when you can see each other in this type of setting to have a good conversation.

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 then you all can't see each other. I think it just helps keep some more lively conversation.

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 that she just reviewed handy maybe you had a chance to print it or you can pull it up

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 to use that as the as the document tonight to review and I want to be able to have some

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 back and forth. So here's what I'm going to ask your indulgence a bit. We're going to

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 go through each of these and I'm going to you're going to see my head turn because I

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 have a second screen here in my office and I'm going to I'm not a scribe. I'm not trying

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 to capture the minutes. I'm going to try to capture the essence of your comments. We're

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 going to go through a few and then I'm going to say okay let's hold on. I'm going to share

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 my screen so you can see some of the comments. This is as similar to what if I were standing

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 in front of you at an easel with a flip chart pad where you could all follow along but we

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 I don't want to do that exclusively because I think that hinders good candid conversation

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 but having done this with other groups in these last few months I have found that that's

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 what they find to be the most effective. Now my role is I'm your guide. I'm going to try

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 to guide you tonight without steering. I have no authority over all of you so I'm not trying

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 to impose my will or steer you in a particular direction. I'm a little like your fitness

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 trainer so hopefully you have your sneakers on. I'm trying to help each of you and all

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 of you get a little bit better shape about crafting these recommendations. Tonight's

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 a little bit of making spaghetti throwing things up on the wall to see what sticks capture

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 the essence of it. I'm going to give you a little bit of homework as Sarah mentioned

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 in the email today that the intent is after we capture all these it's not said and done.

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 They're not ready to be laminated or they're not ready to be voted upon but what it's going

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 to do is allow you to for us to polish it up get it out to you next week whatever you

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 capture tonight and then the homework is going to be for you to really examine these recommendations

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 because the challenge with community groups is prioritization and and I think you can't

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 have all of them I would say for it to be practical. They can't all be a number one

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 priority that's overwhelmed and I'm not sure it's practical so I think it's going to be

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 helpful and there's no perfect way to do this but on the 17th we wanted to try to have a

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 process you can vote for your top one or two recommendations per category. I'm a big believer

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 that less is more so I don't want it's not about points or colors or some sort of sophisticated

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 voting process it's kind of democracy in action you get a couple of votes per category

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 you may vote for your top two and then we're going to see what comes out of that discussion

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 on the 10th the goal is to capture those votes see how it changes maybe have a little bit

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 more discussion with the intent of coming back possibly on the 24th for a final meeting

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 and and finalizing all that we're going to see we've got some wiggle room there on some

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 time you've seen that in the presentation at the meeting I believe was last week or

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 the week before to say that the meetings are the 3rd to 10th the 17th and the 24th so we've

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 got a little bit of wiggle room please indulge us tonight this process is not meant to be

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 efficient but it's meant to be productive if it was inefficient we'd go around the each

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 and you say hold on Patrick can we go back to the previous one absolutely I'm going

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 to ask just for the sake of effectiveness as people can raise their hand so I can call

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 on you just helps have the conversation flow but what I mean by zigzag is we're not trying

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 to fine-tune everything exactly tonight right I know not everybody has it ready to go like

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 Shakespeare and here it's all concise compelling and consolidated it's a little bit messy and

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 and I think we should embrace some of the messiness I'm also trying to just final point

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 I'm going to try to help you stay in your lane you know groups sometimes drift and conversations

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 can drift and I'm going to try to pull you back in to say this is about the use of force

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 it's not a necessary review of the entire police department so that's where sometimes

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 groups get out of there kind of you know they they creep along and they get outside their

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 lane I'm going to try to bring you back please accept that in the spirit that I give it one

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 of the things I take on face value is that you all have a passion for the community of

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 Denton and that's wonderful right you're all volunteers you all volunteer to live there

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 to run a business in Denton you may volunteer to serve on the organization or you volunteer

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 to be in an elected office we love that notion of volunteerism you know occasionally the people's

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 passions collide and it's about being respectful and professional we're going to try to instead

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 of creating a collision we're going to try to create cohesion so you can create some

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 clarity and I'm not a big fan of compromising because I think then everybody goes away upset

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 but I would not use perfection as your gauge if you use perfection as the gauge like you're

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 trying to exactly get it to reflect precisely what it is that you want then somebody else

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 may want to sort of take that and polish it up a little bit so this is a free-flowing

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 to take a break at some point you know a fluid management break or something just allow people

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 what what he said I really like what she said can we build on that absolutely and I think

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 know we really need to flush that out or this create the video series and informational

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 campaign what other details right we're not trying to be so instructive as we are trying

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 to be suggestive we're not trying to nobody ever says he's a really good micromanager

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 bit of nuances there I hope that I hope that makes sense to all of you so there's about

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 don't do well and I I feel like what we're saying here as far as communication and telling

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 a story is when they do things well there's not you don't hear anything about that for

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 the taser they don't use any type of use of force and that individual doesn't run into

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 to be shared and that's not yeah thanks Pam I agree with you I think that's something

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 like that going viral it's the opposite and I you know and I think that that is attributed

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 to the chief and and what he's teaching his officers and what he's promoting with his

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 officer so somehow that message needs to get out okay thank you thanks Pam other ideas

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 about communication yes Rhonda and then is it Jamie yeah Rhonda I specifically am interested

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 in the department using nextdoor.com to communicate positive information about the police force

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 and I understand that probably they have access to it if they don't then we need to figure

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 out how they can get access to it whether it should be the chief or Sarah or somebody

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 need I think needs to be using that particular social media outlet okay thanks Rhonda Jamie

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 committee has allowed me to become more impressed with our department just understanding the

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 scope of how they are working to improve I think it is important to share what I would

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 challenge or I guess the thing that I want to hear from the committee is how do we encourage

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 in a way that is appropriate you know every other type of industry there's some sort of

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 review process right where you can give people your stars or whatnot and so is there that

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 mechanism for the department and if so have we shared it out or communicated what that

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 mechanism might be good point yeah some of this is about the role of the community and

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 of platforms and so much content coming out as 24/7 that it's very it's a very cluttered

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 noise from the story and that's challenging governments all around the country at this

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 time to try to what's what that's called is called social marketing it's a different version

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 you're really marketing a mission you're marketing the marketing the impact so other thoughts

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 is so very different than the professions we come from whatever communication the city

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 and the department pushes out it's really gonna have to be tailored for a very I wouldn't

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 say uneducated audience but an audience that is not very familiar at all with the nuances

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 of the work you do and kind of the boundaries you have okay yes dr. Williams did you have

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 something no no okay yeah there's an old saying Gary that you're not the audience for your

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 message and I think that takes a lot of crafting it's like a teaching process right good teachers

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 and they're not teaching to their colleagues they're teaching to students I don't mean

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 that in a hierarchical way here but crafting the message it's easy to get lost in jargon

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 the vernacular and and I think government already fights that stigma that it's a lot

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 of acronyms or it's a lot of messaging but how how do you articulate that message so people

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 hear you and you put it in terms go ahead I think Pam sees it in her mental health world

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 acronyms a lot of inside industry knowledge expertise communicate outside our domains we

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 have to remember I wouldn't say dumb it down but right say dumb it down well at some of

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 that's calibrating right you're recalibrating the message with diet without diluting the

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 intent and that's a that's a skill set right and how you craft that it has to be a conscious

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 effort so all good points other thoughts yes Bo and then Lillian yeah one of the things

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 communications strengths of the department especially as it gets to the heart of even

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 what led us here to this committee is way that chief Dixon and others have spoken to

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 exist and so in my mind in regards to communicate and telling the story I mean somehow what

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 all of them acknowledged and yes racism is real here's our own story our own interactions

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 of departments may be less clear and acknowledging and just leaning right into that which again

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 is a big part over here so I think in terms of communication and capturing that in a way

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 that communicates to the heart of our neighbors that that's just really a big thing again

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 was on this up page but in my mind would be great up under the communication piece okay

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 of what Gary was saying about the target audience I think I think that the police department

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 same information but you're disseminated in different ways you know a good example would

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 be Spanish make sure that you know the press releases and the things that you're that you're

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 delivering are available in Spanish along with that this might not be super popular

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 and the communication that is sent out from the police department and probably rightfully

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 so backs the police officer all the time I think from the community aspect we we would

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 hope we would wish that the police department the chief would have the back of the community

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 not that they're always pitted against each other right but when something does happen

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 something bad happens it's it's like well the police department comes out and they're

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 always going to cover the back of the officer if that makes any sense and creates distrust

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 from the community members because we're like well of course they're gonna you know of course

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 they're gonna cover that or of course they're gonna have his back it's not us so I think

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 there's something to say that whenever something happens whether it's negative or could seem

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 controversial that if there is a way to get in front of that news uh and acknowledge the

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 potential controversy acknowledge the you know whatever for the community I think it

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 would go a long way um Kerry mentioned as the teacher you know or as an admin I would

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 think if a parent comes and complains well the principal is always going to protect the

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 teacher right but as a parent I want to know and I want to feel that you have my back my

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 best interest and you're not just going to cover whatever your teacher may or may not

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 have done does that make any sense yeah I think I'm sorry yeah I think absolutely does

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 in any relationship personal professional a community to its members a business to customers

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 you're going down the line and trust is fragile by its very nature and when it's been violated

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 it's hard to restore that in a personal level and a professional level and a community level

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 keep people more benefit of the doubt when an event happens people are quick to sort

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 of draw pick teams and then all of a sudden you're trying to um clean up something that

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 saying about what Chief Dixon and other officers are doing the more they reach out the more

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 stories are told the more that they create some benefit of the doubt when something does

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 happen people may at least give them some benefit of the doubt and it's not necessarily

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 adversarial that's a very delicate dance as someone said earlier about that dance it also

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 doesn't happen just by the virtue of the passage of time you have to do that continuously

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 consciously I know Chief Dixon and the officers know that they're unlike most unlike any other

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 city department because they're not only their role um but the impact they have on people's

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 lives so let me pause here for a moment and share my screen so you can unless you've been

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 the essence right it's not all perfect polished and packaged in a recommendation format I'm

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 not I don't think that's where we're trying to go tonight because I don't think that's

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 a good investment of your time we're trying to capture the essence of it so let me share

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 my screen everybody see that I put it in red so it would stand out when they do well there's

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 not as much attention paid to it for example the mental health calls that Pam talked about

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 using nextdoor.com Rhonda talked about communicate positive information how are community members

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 that expectation um as Gary said that the messaging should be tailored to an audience

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 that's not as familiar with police you know I would say for many of you that this is your

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 about where you were three months ago and where you are right now just with your understanding

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 of the complexity of police departments um we're all sort of part of the chorus right

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 this is a little bit of inside baseball we understand it from a different vantage point

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 goes back to we're not the audience for the message uh the way the chief dixon and others

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 have spoken about systemic racism just getting to the heart of it sharing that with the group

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 being candid and constructive conversations with the community uh that the police just

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 the essence here uh the police has started to build community partnerships to build that

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 trust that disseminating information in different languages for example spanish that can break

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 who has the back of the community which is an awkward position sometimes for the chief

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 or elected officials to be in how to get out in front of the news and acknowledge that

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 potential controversy so again i know this is not we're not wordsmithing that's what

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 of what you were trying to share okay so i'm going to stop sharing hopefully you gathered

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 a few of that we're going to go back to all of you now what else yeah uh willy

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 we can't hear you willy now we can okay all right and the one common thread that i thought

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 should be discussed is when there's a problem with communication in in the minority community

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 or just low income community i would say and i don't know if i'm categorizing the group

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 but i i sense it's that group the need for communication usually comes up through controversy

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 or conflict or threat or some something and i i suggested that part of the process by

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 which you help in that area for example i i was mistreated by a police officer and he

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 didn't take my side or he or she didn't listen to me and there there is the need for communication

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 right there you need to talk to that person and help them understand that yes there's

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 a process and here's how you do it well the one of the suggestions under the other items

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 for career uh consideration of last part of the uh the information that we have i communicated

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 that this is what's needed when that happens create one contact for the community to call

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 to talk with an officer someone with empathy time patience have officers stationed um let's

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 see yeah stationed officer in the community community for example in the business or so

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 forth somewhere where they can get to someone to say whatever their concerns are that's

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 not addressed people are threatened and they don't want to come to the police station but

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 they do want to be heard so i think that's one major i'm just capturing that all right

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 thanks willy other thoughts ideas sharpen this as we i think we've all seen communication

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 is a mission critical strategy even in the best of times communicating that message the

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 mission the impact the vision there's no shortage of information um the the challenge is how

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 do you stand out in a cluttered marketplace because people get information cons we all

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 do right and sometimes it's not compelling till it is it's not very sexy it doesn't pop

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 off the page so it's like look that's a challenge i think uh for a lot of things about government

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 which can look stale and a little bit i'm not saying about dent but just as an industry

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 standing out in the in the in a busy marketplace so yes uh donna oh okay just so this is like

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 an auction so if you raise your hand i'm going to call and i meant to say this earlier i'm

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 not going to call on any of you i'm not going to go around the room so don't imagine yourself

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 back in like ninth grade algebra class avoiding eye contact with me okay rubbing your temples

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 or something i'm not going to ever call on you but if you raise your hand i will so sorry

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 donna oh i'll call on him patrick okay i'm sure you will cheryl thank you you're the

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 enforcer other volunteers about the communication and this you know tonight is if you don't

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 if you don't bring something up tonight it's not like oh you can never bring it up this

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 is a a draft right we're trying to create a straw man a sketch but we're not ready to

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 laminate it we got we need some time there's a digestion period and a gestation period

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 of these you gotta let you process these gotta let you think these through we also want to

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 tighten them up a little bit where there's some overlap we might consolidate those right

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 in your words we want to consolidate these and not just be a laundry list or a wish list

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 what have you are the thoughts if not i'm going to suggest we move on to engagement

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 which is a little bit similar right communication is about outreach it's about in some respects

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 marketing both to the group there's mass media and then there's sort of customized messaging

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 the same ecosystem but a little bit different so i'm going to move on to engagement hopefully

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 you have those there i'm just going to read them to you it whoops in case you don't there

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 were there were three four open the the use of force stimulator up to other community

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 leaders and the general public create opportunities to reach and strengthen connections with the

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 community especially those groups that may have less connection to the police department

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 more presence on universities and at university events more connection to youth and the fourth

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 one increased relationships interactions with the lgbtq community people with disabilities

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 and the hispanic latinx community so don is that your hand raised now okay thank you all

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 right go ahead um yes i on behalf of the university because that was one of my suggestions it's

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 as being a student i noticed that and a lot of people notice that a lot of students eat

409
00:38:51,620 --> 00:38:56,980
 up whatever they see on social media and you know with these times of uncertainty and a

410
00:38:56,980 --> 00:39:01,220
 lot of police brutality going on around the country they want to be sure that they're

411
00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:08,100
 safe at their own home and i feel like if we had better communication on campus and

412
00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:13,900
 better engagement with um police officers on campus it would make students feel a lot

413
00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:19,660
 more comfortable and not just something that stage but something that is um a continuous

414
00:39:19,660 --> 00:39:24,140
 thing something that is like okay we're going to talk to you now or we're going to talk

415
00:39:24,140 --> 00:39:29,460
 to you like six months from now like being there and not always in uniform that was another

416
00:39:29,460 --> 00:39:34,900
 thing that i find um pretty imperative for students like me we don't want to always have

417
00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:40,540
 to approach an officer um and all of their their gear i mean it's great you know i understand

418
00:39:40,540 --> 00:39:45,580
 you know that's a part of uniformity but we want to be able to talk casually you know

419
00:39:45,580 --> 00:39:50,660
 just like our upper admin they aren't always running around you know and um they're professional

420
00:39:50,660 --> 00:39:54,420
 retired we can actually sit and talk to them and one of the things that i suggested was

421
00:39:54,420 --> 00:40:06,420
 a tabling session um just something to get better engagement on campus because um

422
00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:09,540
 i think we lost you she froze

423
00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:17,460
 holler when you come back donna you had some good comments there

424
00:40:18,180 --> 00:40:24,660
 thank you john baines good to see you uh gary and then jamie thank you madame chair yeah i

425
00:40:24,660 --> 00:40:29,300
 hear what donna's saying and i think deep dixon's crew does that really really well in the school

426
00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:34,500
 district uh i know what the elementary campus is so i think it is very portable to other parts

427
00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:41,460
 of the community okay thanks gary uh jamie did i thought your hand was uh and then sheryl yeah i

428
00:40:41,460 --> 00:40:47,220
 just wanted to sort of um on this point revisit the point that lillian was making that particularly

429
00:40:47,220 --> 00:40:55,220
 in those communities where there may be a a trust differential and some improvement to be made

430
00:40:55,220 --> 00:41:01,460
 that going into those communities and seeking out partnerships that will allow for better engagement

431
00:41:01,460 --> 00:41:10,260
 is often like stronger than just setting up some panel and hoping that those people come to you

432
00:41:10,260 --> 00:41:16,180
 right so it's finding those linkages and then being able to utilize those communities and those

433
00:41:16,180 --> 00:41:23,780
 partners um to to have it be successful okay a little bit more organic than formal right

434
00:41:23,780 --> 00:41:30,020
 it's sometimes it's a combination of both so sheryl yeah i just want to just make this quick

435
00:41:30,020 --> 00:41:37,380
 point um you do realize that each of our universities has their own police department

436
00:41:37,380 --> 00:41:44,660
 and their police force so it wouldn't be typical to see a lot of engagement for denton police

437
00:41:44,660 --> 00:41:55,140
 to be on twu's campus but you can um always talk to chief garrison at twu or chief rentals at unt

438
00:41:55,140 --> 00:42:02,580
 and they would be more than happy to engage and and talk to those concerns there it wouldn't be

439
00:42:02,580 --> 00:42:09,940
 uh it wouldn't be typical for denton pd to be on those campuses and to have those platforms

440
00:42:10,980 --> 00:42:20,900
 okay yes donna i'm sorry i didn't i my internet completely dropped so i don't know what have we

441
00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:26,100
 heard most of it we where we wrapped up what when you froze there you were saying you want to be

442
00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:30,580
 able to approach and talk with officers when they're not in uniform right to make it more

443
00:42:30,580 --> 00:42:35,780
 approachable and then then you froze from there yes no and what i was saying after that was that

444
00:42:36,580 --> 00:42:41,940
 students um definitely want to be comfortable everywhere they go and i don't know if what

445
00:42:41,940 --> 00:42:48,820
 sheryl just said was related to what i said was that what you were speaking about um yes because

446
00:42:48,820 --> 00:42:56,340
 it's it the question the way you said it it sounded like you wanted to have that engagement

447
00:42:56,340 --> 00:43:02,100
 on campus and each campus has their own police department and yes and i'm completely and i'm

448
00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:09,380
 completely aware of that but in our in our meeting um even with residential the resident the resident

449
00:43:09,380 --> 00:43:15,540
 housing association on campus we have spoken to them and we constantly speak to our campus police

450
00:43:15,540 --> 00:43:21,620
 and they suggest that we have better engagement with our um police department so that's not just

451
00:43:21,620 --> 00:43:27,620
 coming from me it's coming from several students so i find it imperative that um we have engagement

452
00:43:27,620 --> 00:43:33,220
 all around because when we step off the campus we're not just talking um to our campus police

453
00:43:33,220 --> 00:43:39,700
 talking we're talking about um the denton police department as well so it's important all around

454
00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:45,540
 not just when we're on campus no but the way that um i interpreted it that i thought you were talking

455
00:43:45,540 --> 00:43:52,100
 about when you were on campus no on and off campus it's very important okay thank you of course uh

456
00:43:52,100 --> 00:43:58,660
 camion did i pronounce that correctly yeah i just wanted to mention something around um

457
00:43:58,660 --> 00:44:07,140
 communication one of the things that i did share is that it's very confusing the fact that there's

458
00:44:07,140 --> 00:44:12,980
 three different police departments in one town um because there's the universities have their

459
00:44:12,980 --> 00:44:19,300
 own system like people don't readily understand that general people don't readily understand the

460
00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:24,020
 difference between someone that's in a sheriff's outfit and a police department outfit like they

461
00:44:24,020 --> 00:44:30,900
 just see everyone as law enforcement so there needs to be some clear information about all of

462
00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:36,340
 that because also that inhibits people from being able to express like if they have a grievance they

463
00:44:36,340 --> 00:44:41,620
 don't actually know the right place to go and having to go one place and get told it's the wrong

464
00:44:41,620 --> 00:44:48,100
 place creates a huge barrier to where they might not say anything so i just think that a part of

465
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:53,380
 communication needs to be clarifying some of that because i think a lot of people learn that there's

466
00:44:53,380 --> 00:44:58,420
 a lot of different systems at play in law enforcement that we didn't i didn't realize

467
00:44:58,420 --> 00:45:06,580
 that in one small town that this many bodies could be at play okay all right thanks camion um yancey

468
00:45:06,580 --> 00:45:17,140
 is your hand up or yes i just really want to reach out and see what type of other engagements

469
00:45:17,140 --> 00:45:23,700
 that maybe i guess the not the police department but the community because i mean the police

470
00:45:23,700 --> 00:45:30,020
 department do have engagement where we're not in uniform uh like the uh the con with kids and the

471
00:45:30,020 --> 00:45:35,540
 coffee with a cop and all that but yet it seems like that the community really don't come out

472
00:45:35,540 --> 00:45:41,620
 for the most part to support that so what's a better way that we can communicate with the

473
00:45:41,620 --> 00:45:46,180
 community to get the community involved because the police department is actually having these

474
00:45:46,180 --> 00:45:51,700
 type of engagement but it seems like to me the same people show up the ones they want to actually

475
00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:59,300
 be involved so i guess what i'm trying to say is what's the best way for the community to

476
00:45:59,300 --> 00:46:03,860
 make suggestions as opposed to saying the police department need to do this police department need

477
00:46:03,860 --> 00:46:10,100
 to do that offer suggestions on some things that the police department can do where you actually

478
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:17,220
 come out and support the police department okay that's good yeah i mean you can have all the

479
00:46:17,220 --> 00:46:22,580
 programs from a to z it's it's how do you enlist people in that sometimes there's a barrier there

480
00:46:22,580 --> 00:46:28,180
 for a variety of reasons um it's trying to penetrate that barrier and um that's a that's

481
00:46:28,180 --> 00:46:33,140
 a reciprocal relationship which can be again uh delicate even in the best of times donna

482
00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:40,420
 thanks yancy yes answer were you asking that as a general question to everyone

483
00:46:40,420 --> 00:46:46,100
 be a general question but i just wanted that to be a topic that we discuss as opposed to just saying

484
00:46:46,100 --> 00:46:52,420
 this is what police departments needs to do not only just denton but across the nation or you know

485
00:46:52,420 --> 00:46:59,460
 the the colleges or whatever uh we do a lot of stuff at the police department but so that's just

486
00:46:59,460 --> 00:47:05,300
 something that we need to discuss as a whole i feel like personally i feel like it's it goes

487
00:47:05,300 --> 00:47:10,740
 to monitoring your engagement levels because a lot of people engage differently like a lot of

488
00:47:10,740 --> 00:47:16,100
 people take again to social media as opposed to media and as opposed to like maybe mailers which

489
00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:21,140
 is what i was able to talk to sarah about um it's really just about monitoring that because not

490
00:47:21,140 --> 00:47:25,940
 everybody is going to engage in the same way a lot of people nowadays do engage on social media and

491
00:47:25,940 --> 00:47:30,980
 that's how they're drawn to whatever you may be hosting so i just feel like that would be a

492
00:47:30,980 --> 00:47:37,620
 suggestion you might want to take into consideration okay uh john you had your hand up and then katina

493
00:47:37,620 --> 00:47:47,460
 yes i wanted to respond to yancy's uh question or concern uh as a community volunteer since 1986

494
00:47:47,460 --> 00:47:54,820
 one of the things i've noticed is that um the people that need to be at these different meetings

495
00:47:54,820 --> 00:48:00,740
 are usually the ones that don't show up and it's very it's very disconcerting uh we've had

496
00:48:00,740 --> 00:48:08,420
 informational sessions on a number of topics and a number of venues and the people that you want to

497
00:48:08,420 --> 00:48:14,580
 be there it seems like they're almost never there it's very difficult and so my encouragement to

498
00:48:14,580 --> 00:48:20,740
 you yancy is don't give up we just have to continue looking for formula 409 if you're not

499
00:48:20,740 --> 00:48:26,980
 familiar with that there is a product called formula 409 which means there were 408 which

500
00:48:26,980 --> 00:48:32,580
 didn't work and then eventually got the 409 which did work so we just have to keep looking for the

501
00:48:32,580 --> 00:48:38,580
 one that works so please stay encouraged yancy don't give up i'm not discouraged i'm just trying

502
00:48:38,580 --> 00:48:46,340
 to see and back to your point what what can the communities offer suggestions as opposed to saying

503
00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:50,420
 that we're not doing this the community should offer suggestions that way they will show up we

504
00:48:50,420 --> 00:48:56,660
 will start doing things that will get them to show up uh katina and then camion and then lillian

505
00:48:56,660 --> 00:49:03,380
 thanks yancy and john i think that the bridge between communication and engagement is language

506
00:49:03,380 --> 00:49:10,900
 and i think that that's been one of the tremendous issues is language because language is what you

507
00:49:10,900 --> 00:49:19,140
 know just everyday language what we're communicating is what will build um community to trust police

508
00:49:19,140 --> 00:49:24,340
 officers to be able to come out because you you you have to realize that there is polarizing

509
00:49:24,340 --> 00:49:37,380
 language in this country that often um speaks to rendering um a devaluing of black and brown lives

510
00:49:37,380 --> 00:49:46,660
 and um stripping of dignity of black and brown bodies and um even in the times where lives have

511
00:49:46,660 --> 00:49:52,980
 to be taken the ways in which that is done by calling someone a nigger before you shoot them

512
00:49:52,980 --> 00:50:00,820
 you know and not anybody on this panel but you know we talk about how um the

513
00:50:00,820 --> 00:50:07,620
 the stuff goes viral let me just raise my hand and say as a black woman i i don't want the

514
00:50:07,620 --> 00:50:15,220
 affliction of black bodies to go viral that's not sexy to the black community either and um i don't

515
00:50:15,220 --> 00:50:21,940
 like the idea that my children could see you know the infliction of a black body i and in the in the

516
00:50:21,940 --> 00:50:28,260
 lack of dignity that black people are treated um there is an issue like we wouldn't be here if there

517
00:50:28,260 --> 00:50:36,900
 wasn't an issue and at the same time both and i do know that officers can be awesome and um i i know

518
00:50:36,900 --> 00:50:44,740
 many awesome officers but i think that language so that you know when when a life is taken just

519
00:50:44,740 --> 00:50:50,580
 expressing grief there's nothing that's stopping a police officer for from taking a moment to

520
00:50:50,580 --> 00:50:58,260
 express the the the grief like the the you know the sadness of a life being taken even if it had

521
00:50:58,260 --> 00:51:04,020
 to be taken in press conferences a lot of times police officers and i'm not necessarily speaking

522
00:51:04,020 --> 00:51:11,460
 about denton city of denton police but um there are polarizing views that are expressed and we

523
00:51:11,460 --> 00:51:17,460
 still have a dead person regardless of who that person is that person means something to their

524
00:51:17,460 --> 00:51:25,380
 community and that is the language that comes across to the community because if i see language

525
00:51:26,020 --> 00:51:34,340
 that's not valuing the sanctity of my black life i'm not going to want to go anywhere where there

526
00:51:34,340 --> 00:51:41,540
 are officers in that you know within that agency because they stood in a press conference and

527
00:51:41,540 --> 00:51:49,860
 expressed via their language posture and language is verbal it's posture it's presence um it's who

528
00:51:49,860 --> 00:51:56,580
 you surround yourselves with it it's it's when officers get on social media and and high five

529
00:51:56,580 --> 00:52:02,580
 uh white supremacy because you know the white supremacists are the ones that are like you know

530
00:52:02,580 --> 00:52:09,300
 back the blue exploiting police officers and so i think that language is the key to really bridge

531
00:52:09,300 --> 00:52:14,340
 the gap because people people know when people are doing stuff for optics and when they're

532
00:52:14,340 --> 00:52:20,020
 being genuine and unfortunately the good police officers and the good departments are going to

533
00:52:20,020 --> 00:52:26,500
 have to lean in um in ways that bridge the gap for all of the damage that's been done

534
00:52:26,500 --> 00:52:36,580
 um and language um needs to be a focus so that um people know that man they're sad that someone's

535
00:52:36,580 --> 00:52:42,500
 life was taken they're not just spouting off data like they they you know i've seen chief dixon

536
00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:48,420
 when the little boy that was you know or the child that was locked in a car and i we were at an event

537
00:52:48,420 --> 00:52:54,100
 together and he was talking about this child and he like visibly wept and i'm not saying that you

538
00:52:54,100 --> 00:53:01,380
 know i want to see you squeeze out some tears but that moved me um into and put me in a pot like

539
00:53:01,380 --> 00:53:07,700
 put my heart at ease like this is a person that cares about you like the fact that he wept in

540
00:53:07,700 --> 00:53:13,300
 knowing that police officers see that kind of thing all the time that means that he's human and

541
00:53:13,300 --> 00:53:18,820
 that he values the sanctity of life in a way that a lot of people don't in a way that a lot of

542
00:53:18,820 --> 00:53:25,140
 medical you know doctors don't you know police officers don't people that become desensitized

543
00:53:25,140 --> 00:53:32,980
 so language is is is everything and that's that's where you will build communication and that's

544
00:53:32,980 --> 00:53:38,900
 where you will get the engagement that you want because people have to feel safe thank you thanks

545
00:53:38,900 --> 00:53:49,700
 katina and then camion and then lillian yeah i think um i wanted to share something in response

546
00:53:49,700 --> 00:53:57,620
 to gancy also and just as a community organizer like community organizing one-on-one is you go

547
00:53:57,620 --> 00:54:06,260
 to where the people are you don't bring them to you um and that that is the piece that is missing

548
00:54:06,260 --> 00:54:13,460
 and on top of that building off what katina said there's already a lot of distrust not even

549
00:54:13,460 --> 00:54:21,380
 necessarily based on their experience with didn't pd but their entire lives of learning about what

550
00:54:21,380 --> 00:54:30,020
 policing is so that is also a hurdle that um the police department is up against and that's also

551
00:54:30,020 --> 00:54:36,580
 something that the community members have to work through as well so i'm all that to say it's not

552
00:54:36,580 --> 00:54:43,700
 going to be some quick easy fix like this is a long time of engaging folks to break down these

553
00:54:43,700 --> 00:54:51,940
 barriers if this is the goal of the police department um yeah that's all i basically wanted

554
00:54:51,940 --> 00:55:00,340
 to share uh there's not a quick fix to that okay thanks camion lillian yeah i was gonna

555
00:55:00,340 --> 00:55:05,380
 they both kind of just took the words out of my mouth and i know like with the coffee with the

556
00:55:05,380 --> 00:55:11,300
 cup i know a couple of times i shared the flyers and i you know uh but i know like for example

557
00:55:11,300 --> 00:55:16,660
 with lulac we meet every third saturday right and so it would carry a lot more weight if an officer

558
00:55:16,660 --> 00:55:20,980
 a couple of officers came by our meeting sat through the meeting although it might be boring

559
00:55:20,980 --> 00:55:26,100
 and then shook some hands and said hey can i see you you know the invite from the officer is going

560
00:55:26,100 --> 00:55:31,620
 to where the community is at exactly like camion said that's going to carry a lot more weight than

561
00:55:31,620 --> 00:55:37,860
 let me host this and wait for people to come um the other just ideas um you know attend pta

562
00:55:37,860 --> 00:55:42,260
 meetings like obviously not in uniform maybe with a t-shirt and invite some of the parents that are

563
00:55:42,260 --> 00:55:46,740
 there um maybe some of the fasten nights at the high schools where a lot of the parents go and

564
00:55:46,740 --> 00:55:52,180
 they're eager to get information it's just where the community's at um you and t has an awesome

565
00:55:52,180 --> 00:55:58,020
 program upward bound that has you know 50 plus kids you know from low-income families that are

566
00:55:58,020 --> 00:56:02,420
 going to be the first to go to college like they have parent uh events and they're always like well

567
00:56:02,420 --> 00:56:07,460
 populated so it's exactly it's finding the places like camion said where the community's at

568
00:56:07,860 --> 00:56:12,340
 you show up and you're friendly and you hang out and you don't have an agenda other than to

569
00:56:12,340 --> 00:56:17,780
 get to know them and at the end hey we'd love to see you and you invite them um to wherever

570
00:56:17,780 --> 00:56:22,180
 you know whatever you're trying to do the the project or me style or the coffee with the cop

571
00:56:22,180 --> 00:56:28,900
 or anything like that um the other thing i was just going to say um i think katina just it means

572
00:56:28,900 --> 00:56:33,780
 she's put it super eloquently and it goes back to what i said at the beginning it's all about trust

573
00:56:34,340 --> 00:56:41,140
 if if i see that the department like she said acknowledges the loss of life or acknowledges

574
00:56:41,140 --> 00:56:46,340
 the tragedy or you know what i mean and you still have to do the work you still have to uphold the

575
00:56:46,340 --> 00:56:52,100
 law you still you know what i mean but you're you're you're acknowledging that and you're human

576
00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:58,740
 and i feel like i said that the police have my back or at least the department has my back

577
00:56:58,740 --> 00:57:03,780
 and not just you know the officers um because i will tell you and i don't know that we can

578
00:57:04,580 --> 00:57:10,500
 emphasize this as much anytime that something happens with any police department i don't

579
00:57:10,500 --> 00:57:17,460
 i would say most of the time something happens an officer makes a mistake i guarantee you the

580
00:57:17,460 --> 00:57:21,700
 department is from the perception not that it's reality but the perception of the community is

581
00:57:21,700 --> 00:57:27,620
 that everyone's going to try to to protect them and hide that so that the department as a whole

582
00:57:27,620 --> 00:57:33,540
 doesn't lose face and i think that that's very uh that's that's hard on the community because

583
00:57:33,540 --> 00:57:38,420
 then you feel like you you know no matter if it was wrong or right you know the community is not

584
00:57:38,420 --> 00:57:44,580
 going to get the the we're not going to get the the the word is respaldo in spanish but like

585
00:57:44,580 --> 00:57:50,020
 basically backing that it means because it's a community member an outsider going against the

586
00:57:50,020 --> 00:57:56,020
 police department um i don't know how else to explain that but it's it's it's it's very much

587
00:57:56,020 --> 00:58:02,340
 to what katina said it's it's the trust it's the acknowledgement uh it's the being transparent uh

588
00:58:02,340 --> 00:58:08,420
 and it's not just in uh press releases or the actions it's in the language like she said it's

589
00:58:08,420 --> 00:58:13,060
 in the posture it's in it's in everything it's in the way you walk it's in the way that police

590
00:58:13,060 --> 00:58:19,140
 officers are are taught to carry themselves um i will tell you i have lots of officers that are

591
00:58:19,140 --> 00:58:26,420
 friends but there's like a like an arrogance almost that creates a disconnect between community

592
00:58:26,420 --> 00:58:32,020
 members and those officers and i mean that with all the respect i'm not trying to be disrespectful

593
00:58:32,020 --> 00:58:40,180
 at all i'm just trying to acknowledge that the disconnect that exists okay i'm not sure i can

594
00:58:40,180 --> 00:58:45,140
 see everybody here we've got 27 people and i'm seeing 25 so if you raise your hand there are

595
00:58:45,140 --> 00:58:50,420
 limits here with zoom about how small i can how many people i can see so if you've got your hand

596
00:58:50,420 --> 00:58:58,580
 raised and i can't see you please let me know i can see yours ronda so go ahead um i don't know

597
00:58:58,580 --> 00:59:05,380
 where to start this is really personal those of you who are talking about the officers and the

598
00:59:05,380 --> 00:59:16,020
 presentation of self um in the uniform i'm i'm fascinated by this because i've never had a

599
00:59:16,020 --> 00:59:24,180
 negative interaction with the police officer in my entire life never not once not here not anywhere

600
00:59:24,180 --> 00:59:30,180
 and i lived in new york city i lived in new york city uh during the 60s when there were riots you

601
00:59:30,180 --> 00:59:41,380
 know um so i'm not quite sure where i'm going with it but to me it's like we really have some

602
00:59:41,380 --> 00:59:46,580
 different perceptions because i like to see officers in their uniforms i want to know who they are

603
00:59:46,580 --> 00:59:53,620
 first you know who in this group is an officer it goes all the way from i want to identify them

604
00:59:53,620 --> 00:59:58,180
 because if there's trouble i want to know who to go to and if there's not trouble i don't have to

605
00:59:58,180 --> 01:00:04,980
 worry about it because they're here they're going to take care of the trouble it goes all the way

606
01:00:04,980 --> 01:00:11,300
 from that to i always want to say how much does that belt you have to wear weigh do you have a

607
01:00:11,300 --> 01:00:17,860
 backache from that damn belt it must weigh 15 pounds you know it's like man i'm i'm just floored

608
01:00:17,860 --> 01:00:24,660
 so it's got to be about our different experiences in our past you know really

609
01:00:24,660 --> 01:00:32,740
 thanks ronda uh uh jamie and then lillian and then cammy and i think you had your hand up jamie

610
01:00:32,740 --> 01:00:39,220
 i was just gonna say i think it is about difference of experience and i think that

611
01:00:39,220 --> 01:00:47,460
 when it comes to communication and engagement what i'm hearing is that there needs to be a balance

612
01:00:48,260 --> 01:00:54,660
 of both because you're saying for you to be able to engage and communicate well it helps you to

613
01:00:54,660 --> 01:01:02,020
 see a uniform i can tell you not from my personal experience but i work at the cumberland presbyterian

614
01:01:02,020 --> 01:01:10,020
 children's home when our kids see a cop car roll up on our campus there's a lot of fear

615
01:01:10,020 --> 01:01:15,540
 that comes automatically with that interaction and that is true of a lot of people in our community

616
01:01:16,340 --> 01:01:22,580
 and so when we're finding ways to engage i think to come back to the points that have been made

617
01:01:22,580 --> 01:01:28,340
 about meeting people where they are having our officers and having the intentionality of meeting

618
01:01:28,340 --> 01:01:34,740
 people where they are is really critical because it allows for your experience to remain true and

619
01:01:34,740 --> 01:01:44,420
 it recognizes that that's not true for many i would argue even most of our community thanks

620
01:01:44,420 --> 01:01:51,140
 jamie uh lillian and then camion yeah i was gonna i was gonna say the same thing

621
01:01:51,140 --> 01:01:55,940
 miss ronda i do not mean any disrespect on this what i'm about to say and i i know i'm probably

622
01:01:55,940 --> 01:02:01,940
 gonna get backlash and that's okay but when you were saying that all i could think of that's

623
01:02:01,940 --> 01:02:08,900
 privilege and that is because from the moment that i arrived in this country when i was four years old

624
01:02:08,900 --> 01:02:15,860
 i was taught to almost hold my breath when i came across a cop to be invisible when i came across a

625
01:02:15,860 --> 01:02:24,020
 cop and so it is it is it's everything that you guys just said and i think that that the police

626
01:02:24,020 --> 01:02:29,300
 department i'm glad that this came up because just like we're saying in in news conferences and

627
01:02:29,300 --> 01:02:34,420
 press releases and how things need to be in different languages and maybe you know

628
01:02:34,420 --> 01:02:38,580
 that's the same thing you want to build trust with the black and brown community then don't show up

629
01:02:38,580 --> 01:02:43,460
 with your gun you know what i mean if you want to build more trust with the white community maybe

630
01:02:43,460 --> 01:02:50,500
 show up for regalia i don't know you know what i mean um but but i think that this has this is big

631
01:02:50,500 --> 01:03:01,700
 you know thanks lillian and then katina has your hand up i was gonna say similarly it is literally

632
01:03:01,700 --> 01:03:10,580
 about privilege i think from an early age i've been socialized to be afraid of what could happen

633
01:03:10,580 --> 01:03:18,740
 if i came to in too close contact with police which even makes being a part of these meetings

634
01:03:18,740 --> 01:03:27,380
 with so many police officers very hard for me um but it is definitely about privilege i have friends

635
01:03:27,380 --> 01:03:33,060
 who have said that they have waived a police officer down to give them a ride home and i could

636
01:03:33,060 --> 01:03:42,740
 never even imagine doing that i can't imagine ever doing that if something happens i likely will call

637
01:03:42,740 --> 01:03:50,820
 the police last resort um just to like put it in perspective black women are the least likely to

638
01:03:50,820 --> 01:03:57,780
 engage law enforcement when they're experiencing domestic violence that is how not in contact with

639
01:03:57,780 --> 01:04:02,980
 police black women want to be and that is how much we want to protect other black folks who

640
01:04:02,980 --> 01:04:14,100
 might come in contact with police okay katina and then willy yeah i'm i guess i'm you know struggling

641
01:04:14,100 --> 01:04:24,340
 with your comment i do appreciate it miss ronda but um i would say that myself as a black woman

642
01:04:24,340 --> 01:04:30,980
 i that there are privileges that i have based on education and based on maybe the area i live in or

643
01:04:30,980 --> 01:04:42,100
 whatever um but my concern is the least of these um as a christian woman and there is a public outcry

644
01:04:42,100 --> 01:04:50,260
 and it is across the country and there are you know decades and even centuries of brutalization

645
01:04:50,260 --> 01:04:58,580
 and trauma that we have to work through and it's not subjective it's not about what i you know that

646
01:04:58,580 --> 01:05:05,300
 i may feel comfortable with an officer because i have i've had positive and negative experiences

647
01:05:05,300 --> 01:05:12,260
 i've had some very traumatic experiences and know of very traumatic experiences that i know are

648
01:05:12,260 --> 01:05:20,580
 actually true um with police officers but in i've had wonderful experiences but it's it's not

649
01:05:20,580 --> 01:05:28,020
 necessarily based on my personal experience as much as it's based on what um um what my people

650
01:05:28,020 --> 01:05:33,620
 group is uh is experiencing and i have a burden that i wouldn't turn my back on that just because

651
01:05:33,620 --> 01:05:39,860
 i'm afforded some privileges um and you know i would hope that even if i were a white woman

652
01:05:39,860 --> 01:05:47,620
 that i would want to see justice for anybody that's a human being um because you know we all are made

653
01:05:47,620 --> 01:05:54,420
 in the likeness and image of of the lord and as for me personally as a christian woman my conviction

654
01:05:54,420 --> 01:06:00,580
 you know i i'm i'm i'm i'm a big advocate for like sexual abuse and domestic violence

655
01:06:01,140 --> 01:06:09,300
 and i will advocate for white women because they're being abused and there are huge statistics

656
01:06:09,300 --> 01:06:15,060
 like ain't nobody gonna abuse me like i will i would like my husband like i will take you out

657
01:06:15,060 --> 01:06:23,060
 like i'm you know but i know i know many women like that's their reality and i have physically

658
01:06:23,060 --> 01:06:31,700
 seen with my own eyes women be physically abused and my thing is it it map it it i'm not gonna just

659
01:06:31,700 --> 01:06:37,620
 even though black women have by and large like the sexual abuse um statistics for black women

660
01:06:37,620 --> 01:06:42,740
 and the domestic violence and the fact that 75 000 black women and girls are missing in this country

661
01:06:42,740 --> 01:06:48,820
 right now there are white women in our community who have opened their clothes up and showed me

662
01:06:48,820 --> 01:06:56,100
 their bruises and that's enough that's enough for me nobody's gonna ever punch me but seeing

663
01:06:56,100 --> 01:07:03,140
 those experiences that's enough thanks katina i think willy you had your hand up and then after

664
01:07:03,140 --> 01:07:10,740
 willy patrick we're gonna take a break okay okay yes sure it'll be a good time for a break uh

665
01:07:10,740 --> 01:07:20,020
 patrick i we're off track we're we're way off track uh it's not that it's not a good discussion

666
01:07:20,020 --> 01:07:28,820
 and it's something that probably we are discussed at some place but i'm confused not confused i'm

667
01:07:28,820 --> 01:07:37,540
 struggling i'm thinking well what are we here for tonight what are we right now at this meeting

668
01:07:37,540 --> 01:07:45,540
 here for are we trying to hone this thing down to a recommendation or should we just throw out

669
01:07:45,540 --> 01:07:51,780
 the possibility of doing having a recommendation and just talk about stuff

670
01:07:51,780 --> 01:07:58,740
 well i got some stuff i want to talk about i've been through a lot of stuff and i want to talk

671
01:07:58,740 --> 01:08:04,660
 about some of it and i want someone to help me get through it please help me get through my stuff

672
01:08:05,860 --> 01:08:14,020
 not the time we're not here for that i don't think i don't know so patrick i'm asking you

673
01:08:14,020 --> 01:08:21,780
 after the break or whenever you help me get on track or i'm through i'm out of zoom call me gone

674
01:08:21,780 --> 01:08:28,100
 i don't know what we're doing here so that's all i would say okay thanks willy so we're going to

675
01:08:28,100 --> 01:08:34,900
 take how long of a break sheryl we're going to take a 10 minute break and um then we're going

676
01:08:34,900 --> 01:08:41,060
 to come back and then we will be done by 8 15 however far we get okay all right thanks sheryl

677
01:08:41,060 --> 01:08:50,980
 okay we are back uh to the use of force ad hoc committee um welcome back thank you for coming

678
01:08:50,980 --> 01:08:58,260
 back we are um very much off topic um and i know everybody wanted to get in what they were feeling

679
01:08:58,260 --> 01:09:04,500
 in their expressions but um we need to move forward with the additional items that we have

680
01:09:04,500 --> 01:09:10,500
 for a presentation tonight because we will be finishing at 8 15 and then we will be back next

681
01:09:10,500 --> 01:09:19,380
 week so i'm going to turn it back over to patrick but um from this point on if you want to have a

682
01:09:19,380 --> 01:09:24,900
 comment or speak raise your hand and i will acknowledge you so you everybody can have a time

683
01:09:24,900 --> 01:09:31,140
 okay thanks sheryl so we're going to move on to transparency and accountability hopefully you have

684
01:09:31,140 --> 01:09:34,660
 that document there in front of you that you can read through those recommendations package and

685
01:09:34,660 --> 01:09:39,540
 share the data and info that has been provided to the committee create a biannual report with use of

686
01:09:39,540 --> 01:09:44,740
 force data complaints and dispositions i'm just giving you the highlights here continue to develop

687
01:09:44,740 --> 01:09:50,660
 a culture and standard for officers to hold each other accountable so either to build on those

688
01:09:51,380 --> 01:10:01,620
 or if something's not there in regards to transparency and accountability if not i'm

689
01:10:01,620 --> 01:10:07,060
 going to move on i'm not trying to make a sprint but i'm and we can always come back but trying to

690
01:10:07,060 --> 01:10:13,860
 keep it moving for the sake of the keeping you engaged yes gary oh i'm sorry i would just add

691
01:10:13,860 --> 01:10:23,620
 determine data dashboards somewhere to those bullets okay thanks gary

692
01:10:23,620 --> 01:10:36,900
 okay patrick yeah so the next one and i'm trying to swivel back and forth here the next two were

693
01:10:36,900 --> 01:10:44,900
 more about sort of sentiments from group members about mental health unit and response i think as

694
01:10:44,900 --> 01:10:50,260
 you all are aware that that's getting ready to roll out so the comment was a recommendation was

695
01:10:50,260 --> 01:10:54,340
 support for a new mental health division unit and concept to pair officers with mental health

696
01:10:54,340 --> 01:11:00,660
 counselors wherever possible use this alternative response and i'm sure as chief dixon shared with

697
01:11:00,660 --> 01:11:05,780
 all of you during the presentation about this this is started a large part of a larger national trend

698
01:11:05,780 --> 01:11:11,300
 a lot of police departments in all different sizes are starting to do this it's becoming adopted more

699
01:11:11,300 --> 01:11:16,500
 and more frequently the next item again was more of a sentiment i'm not trying to just brush through

700
01:11:16,500 --> 01:11:22,980
 these but they're more of a an idea with the recommendation contained in it officer wellness

701
01:11:22,980 --> 01:11:27,620
 supporting for increasing resources and focus on officers mental health and wellness to value

702
01:11:27,620 --> 01:11:32,820
 officer well-being and mitigate potential use of force situations and develop a way to monitor

703
01:11:32,820 --> 01:11:40,980
 or watch for signs that something is wrong so if anything this whole as we all know this pandemic

704
01:11:40,980 --> 01:11:45,780
 has pulled back the curtain on just emotional mental health for a lot of people and officers in

705
01:11:45,780 --> 01:11:50,580
 particular and those of you that know officers or are you've gotten to know officers you know that

706
01:11:50,580 --> 01:11:55,540
 their situations it not only impacts them it impacts their whole family so it's uh it's more

707
01:11:55,540 --> 01:12:01,460
 than just them and providing them resources to cope with that these coping skills so i'm just

708
01:12:01,460 --> 01:12:07,860
 going to move on to the next one which is about training which i know you had lengthy discussions

709
01:12:07,860 --> 01:12:12,740
 about and impressed by the amount of training was provided that's more that's a statement

710
01:12:12,740 --> 01:12:16,740
 uh the recommendation increased the frequency of the mental health training provided to all officers

711
01:12:16,740 --> 01:12:21,940
 regular cultural cultural diversity and sensitivity training increase the training

712
01:12:21,940 --> 01:12:26,980
 awareness to engage with people with disabilities both intellectual and physical many more intellectual

713
01:12:26,980 --> 01:12:32,340
 disabilities than autism which dentin police department has been training on so sort of adding

714
01:12:32,340 --> 01:12:37,460
 to that list of how they're addressing people all different walks of life and their services that

715
01:12:37,460 --> 01:12:42,820
 they provide help you making sure they're equipped i'm not sure we're going to cover all the topics

716
01:12:42,820 --> 01:12:54,740
 because they're things are happening on a regular basis any thoughts about that oops well

717
01:12:56,580 --> 01:13:02,740
 and one of the things we talked about sarah in the uh assistant chief and i was just connected

718
01:13:02,740 --> 01:13:11,940
 to use of force in particular um even connected to that biannual report and uh whatever sustained

719
01:13:11,940 --> 01:13:19,700
 complaints that are internally or externally uh maybe thinking through how going training or at

720
01:13:19,700 --> 01:13:25,140
 least focused training in the department can be sort of based on that data comes in throughout

721
01:13:25,140 --> 01:13:30,660
 the year of just particularly around sustained complaints if there's a number of sustained

722
01:13:30,660 --> 01:13:37,540
 complaints or whatnot just letting the sort of data of those help drive whatever ongoing training

723
01:13:37,540 --> 01:13:42,500
 pointed to knowing that at different times in the life of the department there's just

724
01:13:42,500 --> 01:13:47,620
 going to be different things to focus or refocus on and so that was something under training about

725
01:13:47,620 --> 01:13:55,060
 is how in some of that data particularly regarding internal or external complaints drive some of the

726
01:13:55,060 --> 01:14:03,780
 training in an ongoing way okay i capture that there bo gary yeah it kind of ties back to

727
01:14:03,780 --> 01:14:11,380
 communication as well as accountability but to be able to show scorecard wise department as a whole

728
01:14:11,380 --> 01:14:18,180
 where do we stand in terms of having completed all training for all employees across the department

729
01:14:18,180 --> 01:14:30,260
 it's always a moving target but where do we add is even given point in time okay i added that as well

730
01:14:30,260 --> 01:14:36,980
 anything else on training

731
01:14:42,900 --> 01:14:48,820
 okay the next one's policy and there was one item on there i feel the department is doing well with

732
01:14:48,820 --> 01:14:53,140
 policies impressed by the process over the last two two years to update all the orders and move

733
01:14:53,140 --> 01:14:57,860
 to alexa pole system do not feel there is much to offer specific to policy changes

734
01:14:57,860 --> 01:15:03,700
 other thoughts about the policies

735
01:15:06,500 --> 01:15:15,460
 lillian and then cameo i'm a little afraid to talk now but i'll do my best to stay on topic thank you

736
01:15:15,460 --> 01:15:22,900
 although i thought mr ibarra was going to be the one that facilitated that portion of our talk but

737
01:15:22,900 --> 01:15:34,420
 anyway on um i feel that most of the policy that i've seen i feel that most of the policy that i've

738
01:15:34,420 --> 01:15:40,580
 seen hold on a second lillian katina can you have your husband turn his uh thank you

739
01:15:40,580 --> 01:15:47,780
 but he's all he's all yeah and there there's no shade being we're working as a team here

740
01:15:47,780 --> 01:15:55,060
 so i feel that most of the policy that i've seen and i i apologize because i was trying to go back

741
01:15:55,060 --> 01:15:59,060
 to my notes to see if i could find one in particular but most of the policy really

742
01:15:59,060 --> 01:16:04,420
 protects the officer um i'd like to see if there's any policy that could be in place

743
01:16:04,420 --> 01:16:10,020
 uh that could protect the residents of the community um i'm just going to throw that

744
01:16:10,020 --> 01:16:13,620
 out there like i said i don't have a specific one right now i'll try to go back to my notes

745
01:16:13,620 --> 01:16:21,380
 and if i can email sarah to find a specific instance then i will okay thank you cameo

746
01:16:23,780 --> 01:16:30,580
 uh as it regards policy um i wanted to share that during my like one-on-one interview

747
01:16:30,580 --> 01:16:39,620
 i mentioned how we saw a lot of different policies um but what shocked me was that there

748
01:16:39,620 --> 01:16:45,060
 were so many different layers between the state and the local and the county um and making that

749
01:16:45,060 --> 01:16:50,980
 like really explicit because i think when we had community members call in there were definitely

750
01:16:50,980 --> 01:16:57,460
 things that they thought related to things dpd could change that they couldn't so like as a part

751
01:16:57,460 --> 01:17:04,660
 of communication like making that more transparent and clear um around the policies that are state

752
01:17:04,660 --> 01:17:13,940
 and not state and all of that other stuff okay both uh one of the things i i told you remember

753
01:17:13,940 --> 01:17:23,940
 this or mr cronic but we we got and maybe even the meeting we took a while to talk through um

754
01:17:23,940 --> 01:17:31,060
 use of force policy as it was connected to basically police officers protecting their

755
01:17:31,060 --> 01:17:36,420
 own lives i don't know if you remember that and what i remember from that discussion was just

756
01:17:36,420 --> 01:17:41,620
 the fact that at least to us reading it and certainly we're not filtering it through the

757
01:17:41,620 --> 01:17:46,820
 legal standards that mr cronic you would or whoever there might be more aware of those things it just

758
01:17:46,820 --> 01:17:54,340
 the fact that we needed so much discussion around it um meant that it wasn't clear to us

759
01:17:54,340 --> 01:18:01,460
 exactly what it was saying until chi clarified it with his own word hence that may not be anything

760
01:18:01,460 --> 01:18:08,980
 we can do in the act policy itself but i think on the occasions front of just here's the essence

761
01:18:08,980 --> 01:18:13,380
 of what this policy communicating in regards to use of is that essentially

762
01:18:13,380 --> 01:18:19,140
 officers when their life or somebody else's danger they can protect it but in any other

763
01:18:19,140 --> 01:18:26,420
 it's inappropriate and i think that's what you had said chief and uh again the policy just didn't

764
01:18:26,420 --> 01:18:34,260
 read that um forcefully or clearly to us but again that's because i assume it's being filtered

765
01:18:34,260 --> 01:18:39,620
 through legal filters as well as others so i just wanted to bring that back but it wasn't as much

766
01:18:39,620 --> 01:18:45,860
 that uh i don't i don't know if there's any as much as maybe that dips back into communication

767
01:18:45,860 --> 01:18:53,940
 thank you thanks bro other comments about policy

768
01:19:00,580 --> 01:19:04,580
 okay uh the oversight will be addressed at your meeting next week

769
01:19:04,580 --> 01:19:11,140
 uh by the by mike crony to walk you through all the particulars for that

770
01:19:11,140 --> 01:19:16,740
 the intent here as i mentioned earlier tonight the beginning of the meeting was to

771
01:19:16,740 --> 01:19:21,940
 gather any sort of additional polish to the recommendations put some new ones out there

772
01:19:21,940 --> 01:19:29,060
 what sarah and i will do is go back over our mind notes her notes try to see if there's overlap

773
01:19:29,060 --> 01:19:35,380
 here polish up the wording of it best we can without you know trying to make sure that that's

774
01:19:35,380 --> 01:19:41,940
 the essence of it and get those back out to you hopefully by the end of next week so you can look

775
01:19:41,940 --> 01:19:49,620
 at those we're not sure how many are going to end up being attributed to each category it may be

776
01:19:49,620 --> 01:19:53,860
 where there's not one or two so we'll have a process we don't want to make it complicated

777
01:19:53,860 --> 01:19:59,620
 for voting but if there's so many that you need to make a selection there will have a process

778
01:19:59,620 --> 01:20:03,860
 it may be there ends up being one or two recommendations per category and we'll

779
01:20:03,860 --> 01:20:09,140
 confer with the chair uh sheryl english to find out maybe an approach to make sure that reflects

780
01:20:09,140 --> 01:20:17,220
 yeah john or uh sheryl do you want to call on john and jane go ahead john uh thank you um i guess

781
01:20:18,580 --> 01:20:24,420
 i think we've captured a lot of the conversation that i remember my only question is this

782
01:20:24,420 --> 01:20:34,180
 when this goes back to the community are they going to say this is what i was expecting

783
01:20:34,180 --> 01:20:40,260
 or is there are they or will the community be looking for something you know i think you know

784
01:20:40,260 --> 01:20:47,380
 we're talking about use of force and all the things are so but for someone who hasn't been

785
01:20:47,380 --> 01:20:54,980
 in these meetings they may be a little disappointed with such a um um straightforward presentation

786
01:20:54,980 --> 01:21:00,260
 anyway that's just my impression so there's no disrespect i think we've worked hard and

787
01:21:00,260 --> 01:21:05,060
 we've tried to get everything but when you when it when it goes on the front page of the newspaper

788
01:21:05,060 --> 01:21:09,700
 and say this is what the recommendation is uh what's the response going to be

789
01:21:11,860 --> 01:21:21,300
 okay jamie it is as if mr baines read my mind um i think that there are some things that i

790
01:21:21,300 --> 01:21:29,460
 they maybe they aren't universal but i think there are some pieces about sharing for the community

791
01:21:29,460 --> 01:21:37,220
 what is the responsibility of the denton pd versus other law enforcement agencies what are sort of at

792
01:21:37,220 --> 01:21:44,820
 the third grade level how are we allowed to change or or develop policy as a department

793
01:21:44,820 --> 01:21:50,660
 because there's law that is guiding a lot of that right some of those communications and

794
01:21:50,660 --> 01:21:56,740
 foundational building blocks that we have learned as part of our ongoing conversations as a committee

795
01:21:56,740 --> 01:22:04,660
 i believe they have to be teed up first because it makes some of then our future recommendations

796
01:22:06,420 --> 01:22:13,060
 make a little bit more sense i feel like and so to the point about the dashboards and the

797
01:22:13,060 --> 01:22:19,780
 statistics that we have received about the use of force incidents in the community my hope is that

798
01:22:19,780 --> 01:22:28,020
 when we move to selecting our choices for some of these categories that if we identify that there

799
01:22:28,020 --> 01:22:34,180
 are some spaces that are universal at the outset there are some other things that you know i think

800
01:22:34,180 --> 01:22:40,980
 are important here so you know i hope that as we're doing our voting we there's some way some

801
01:22:40,980 --> 01:22:53,140
 mechanism to take that into account camion ah i didn't have time this week to give approval for

802
01:22:53,140 --> 01:22:58,740
 the statement that i wrote but i suggested that a statement be added to the report that kind of

803
01:22:58,740 --> 01:23:04,980
 responds to the community's concerns because this committee had a call out to community members to

804
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:12,500
 call in and so we have a little bit of a duty to respond to those things um the statement talks

805
01:23:12,500 --> 01:23:19,300
 about the narrow scope of the committee like we had one thing to do but the community clearly

806
01:23:19,300 --> 01:23:25,220
 responded that they wanted this this that and the other and i recommended that the city put together

807
01:23:25,220 --> 01:23:31,140
 a different committee not necessarily an ad hoc even if it's a research to discover what it is

808
01:23:31,140 --> 01:23:36,340
 the community really wants to do with their relationship with dpd like the city should

809
01:23:36,340 --> 01:23:40,580
 figure that out because that's what the community seems like they want and that's not the scope of

810
01:23:40,580 --> 01:23:47,620
 this committee okay and and and with that being thank you with that being said we had a charge

811
01:23:47,620 --> 01:23:55,780
 to come up with recommendations for use of force and i agree uh one time uh with willy because we

812
01:23:55,780 --> 01:24:04,420
 usually don't we are very off topic and um we need to get back on topic we have patrick here to do

813
01:24:04,420 --> 01:24:12,180
 that and we need to stay on topic with what recommendations that we have for the city and

814
01:24:12,180 --> 01:24:18,100
 the police department with regards to use of force right now we have a lot of public relation

815
01:24:18,100 --> 01:24:23,380
 things that we're talking about which have nothing to do with the use of force

816
01:24:23,380 --> 01:24:32,420
 so we need to get back on topic well addressing some of those public relations is going to

817
01:24:32,420 --> 01:24:36,260
 eliminate some of those unnecessary use of force things that could happen in the future

818
01:24:37,300 --> 01:24:44,820
 um i probably will agree and disagree with you on some of that but right now we've made

819
01:24:44,820 --> 01:24:52,740
 we've made what we are supposed to do is to have policy on use of force and what we would like to

820
01:24:52,740 --> 01:25:00,180
 see and not see not to say that what you're saying is not important but just as much as how you feel

821
01:25:00,180 --> 01:25:05,220
 about your perspective and your experience with the police department you have a whole other part

822
01:25:05,220 --> 01:25:10,660
 of the city that feels like i don't really want the police department to do all these things

823
01:25:10,660 --> 01:25:16,580
 because we don't have enough officers as it is what we want is them to do their job and keep us safe

824
01:25:16,580 --> 01:25:24,900
 so if we can find a way to marry the two uh yeah i got text messages too now i'm looking at i'm

825
01:25:24,900 --> 01:25:30,020
 looking at everything that sarah typed up because then we're off then she's off topic on here with

826
01:25:30,020 --> 01:25:35,940
 mental health and officer wellness and then none of that relates if you're it does relate because

827
01:25:35,940 --> 01:25:42,660
 if those particular if those particular issues end up with a problem with the police department

828
01:25:42,660 --> 01:25:49,460
 and then there's use of force that isn't properly used then what what do we have what have what

829
01:25:49,460 --> 01:25:58,340
 policy have we put in place to prevent that but right now we're talking about everything off topic

830
01:25:59,620 --> 01:26:08,500
 willie did you have something you wanted to say yes i do i i feel the frustration with everybody

831
01:26:08,500 --> 01:26:15,220
 because when i finally figured out what we are here to do i thought well that's just a small

832
01:26:15,220 --> 01:26:27,300
 portion of really what i hoped we would do and i want to do but guys sarah summed up what we all

833
01:26:27,300 --> 01:26:33,460
 talked about that we wanted to add in this recommendation and that's all we have is a

834
01:26:33,460 --> 01:26:42,340
 recommendation to the city to the city council and it's a small little part it's a little small

835
01:26:42,340 --> 01:26:49,700
 part it doesn't cover go anywhere close to what i my person what i want to talk about and what i

836
01:26:49,700 --> 01:26:57,460
 want to bring up so i thought okay here's what he asked me to do we got to make a recommendation

837
01:26:57,460 --> 01:27:03,860
 sarah has put all this stuff together that we said we want to talk about that's the topic we just got

838
01:27:03,860 --> 01:27:09,700
 to stay with the topic it'll be a smart we will say to the police department something like this

839
01:27:09,700 --> 01:27:17,780
 we think you're doing a good job wonder if you would just do this one other little thing that

840
01:27:17,780 --> 01:27:25,300
 we want done as a committee and then be able to say that and the key words that the city councilman

841
01:27:25,300 --> 01:27:32,740
 said they wanted was something that we if we could communicate clearly and that it was something

842
01:27:32,740 --> 01:27:39,780
 they could do now that's how the small that's going to be so small minute that doesn't change

843
01:27:39,780 --> 01:27:46,900
 what you this committee has done for me tonight i'm fired up so i'm going to address some of those

844
01:27:46,900 --> 01:27:52,660
 other issues i'll figure out how to do it if i just have to virtually get talk to the city council

845
01:27:52,660 --> 01:27:58,260
 over and over threaten my son that he not to come over and eat no more and we're going to see the

846
01:27:58,260 --> 01:28:05,620
 children uh and not him the grandchildren i'm just kidding i just but i i i'm going to do something

847
01:28:05,620 --> 01:28:11,780
 else but this committee has nothing to do with that we we just don't we're going to make a

848
01:28:11,780 --> 01:28:18,740
 recommendation as to what we think the city council should do and this one issue and it's

849
01:28:18,740 --> 01:28:24,900
 got to be communicated clearly and it's got to be something that they can do so i get that

850
01:28:24,900 --> 01:28:33,380
 so that's where i want us to go from this point on please so i'm just gonna i have a question

851
01:28:33,380 --> 01:28:39,700
 when the officer was talking about engagement and communication and we were offering our responses

852
01:28:40,420 --> 01:28:48,340
 we're because it seems like going off topic is selective to be quite honest and some people get

853
01:28:48,340 --> 01:28:55,140
 to have long diatribes about whatever they want and some people seem to not be able to speak and

854
01:28:55,140 --> 01:28:59,620
 whenever they speak we're off topic so when we were talking about communication and engagement

855
01:28:59,620 --> 01:29:05,140
 what would have been the proper response so i can make sure that i don't go off topic again

856
01:29:05,140 --> 01:29:11,140
 because i want to understand where we went wrong from our chairlady thank you

857
01:29:11,140 --> 01:29:27,220
 we are here for a charge for use of force and we have talked talked about everything but that

858
01:29:27,220 --> 01:29:33,620
 where does communication and engagement fall in and again what should but that's not what they ask

859
01:29:33,620 --> 01:29:40,660
 us for but they talk about communication and engagement was he not i just wanted i'm not he's

860
01:29:40,660 --> 01:29:46,340
 just going over what you guys all put uh what all everything you guys when you talk to them

861
01:29:46,340 --> 01:29:52,180
 he's going over the summary of what everybody said so when he asked for questions should we just not

862
01:29:52,180 --> 01:30:00,980
 have responded you can respond to what the question that he answered so i'm trying to see where the

863
01:30:00,980 --> 01:30:04,900
 off topic happened was it with miss ronda talking about her personal experience and everybody

864
01:30:04,900 --> 01:30:12,580
 responded what was the off topic we we are off topic of what we're supposed to be doing and

865
01:30:12,580 --> 01:30:18,580
 that is the charge i'm not here i'm not here to argue back and forth i'm here you asked for a

866
01:30:18,580 --> 01:30:25,380
 moderator you have one and we're trying to get through this i just don't want to go off topic

867
01:30:25,380 --> 01:30:30,580
 again and i'm see like i'm not trying to argue i just want to make sure that i don't go off again

868
01:30:30,580 --> 01:30:36,180
 because then we get we get we get you know slapped on the wrist and told that we're not talking about

869
01:30:36,180 --> 01:30:43,060
 what we're here for but we were responding to the progressive conversation well i would i will tell

870
01:30:43,060 --> 01:30:50,100
 you this from this point on if anybody's off topic i'm going to tell you you're off topic i've tried

871
01:30:50,100 --> 01:30:57,860
 to have let you guys have leeway and say what you have to have and we're off topic and we need to

872
01:30:57,860 --> 01:31:03,300
 stay on topic because we cannot continue week after week after week and we still don't have

873
01:31:03,300 --> 01:31:09,220
 any recommendations at some point we have to wrap this up charlotte if i might be able to help a

874
01:31:09,220 --> 01:31:15,300
 little bit yes the exercise that sarah went out with the team and talked everybody about that

875
01:31:15,300 --> 01:31:23,860
 wanted to participate you know the the officer's training the department's transparency of of

876
01:31:23,860 --> 01:31:30,100
 information of use of force the policies as they relate to use force that was tonight's subject

877
01:31:30,100 --> 01:31:36,820
 and the idea was you've had a lot of education in these areas training transparency policies

878
01:31:36,820 --> 01:31:42,420
 they all relate to use of force you know and how well prepared our officers are how well we're

879
01:31:42,420 --> 01:31:46,020
 sharing information these are all things that the committee when we first started talking uh

880
01:31:46,020 --> 01:31:52,420
 might bring you together wanting to know we've had a number of you that are wanting to head into also

881
01:31:52,980 --> 01:31:57,140
 you know reporting oversight options that sort of thing for use of force that will be the next

882
01:31:57,140 --> 01:32:03,140
 meeting but you know if there's any ideas of where we're falling short on training how how

883
01:32:03,140 --> 01:32:08,260
 we're presenting information to you on use of force taser type incidents and what policy updates

884
01:32:08,260 --> 01:32:11,780
 that the chief's been working out with this team if there's any other ideas that we should be adding

885
01:32:11,780 --> 01:32:19,700
 in that was the focus tonight next week we'll have a overview from michael on other options for

886
01:32:19,700 --> 01:32:25,220
 for oversight of reporting it'll be and that would be the the conversation there but it's really

887
01:32:25,220 --> 01:32:31,700
 those four topics that feed into the use of force recommendation so then trying to give you a little

888
01:32:31,700 --> 01:32:36,580
 bit of perspective for again and just kind of remind everyone what the exercise was last week

889
01:32:36,580 --> 01:32:42,660
 and we're just trying to make sure that those ideas those that input that you have what what

890
01:32:42,660 --> 01:32:49,460
 else should we be adding in this feedback to the city council and those in those areas in particular

891
01:32:49,940 --> 01:32:54,180
 and that's what we're trying to make sure that people understand what we're trying to do.

892
01:32:54,180 --> 01:33:05,460
 Thank you Todd. Patrick is that all you have to present tonight as far as where we're

893
01:33:05,460 --> 01:33:11,460
 are we finishing a little early? Yeah finishing a little bit early we we I believe we accomplished

894
01:33:11,460 --> 01:33:17,140
 what the intent was to flush out and polish up some of these recommendations obviously there still

895
01:33:17,140 --> 01:33:42,900
 the city manager. And you share all about how do we bundle this together for the next for not for the 10th, but for the 17th meeting again next week is entirely about the oversight. Okay. So, um, All right. Yeah. Okay. So Michael's next week. Yes. Okay. Thank you, Patrick. Yeah.

896
01:33:47,700 --> 01:33:53,220
 So we're done for tonight. Sarah, do you keep fixing? Do you have something you want to add?

897
01:33:53,220 --> 01:34:11,420
 Yeah, if you guys don't mind for just a second, I just want to let you guys know that although some of your conversations get very spirited, the team and I are over taking notes about everything that you're discussing, whether it's relevant or not. We're not here to discuss that.

898
01:34:11,700 --> 01:34:22,300
 We're taking them. We're talking about them. And if you've noticed over the last few weeks, we've actually implemented some of the things that y'all have been talking about, and we're looking at other ways to do business.

899
01:34:22,300 --> 01:34:39,260
 So don't think that we're not taking to heart the entire discussion in its entirety. We are. You'll see as many times looking at each other or looking down while we're taking notes. So I want to make sure that you guys know that this is not a lost conversation.

900
01:34:40,380 --> 01:34:56,340
 That we are truly vested in making ourselves better and in turn making our city better. So I appreciate all the comments from everybody because that's the only way we're going to get better is if we're critical. We just have to remember not to make it personal.

901
01:34:57,900 --> 01:35:14,460
 Well, and I want to add to that Chief Dixon, I certainly shared a lot of what I heard, even if it wasn't related specifically to use of force with the police department on a lot of valuable feedback from the community members and the police department was very appreciative of that.

902
01:35:14,860 --> 01:35:30,620
 And you guys saw Dr. Williams as well in all of those interviews. So it was a really good opportunity for us to have more detailed dialogue with each of you. I know some of those aren't coming out right now here in this meeting, but really wanted to thank you for that. I know that the police department really appreciated that as well.

903
01:35:30,620 --> 01:35:32,940
 Thank you, Sarah.

904
01:35:32,940 --> 01:35:38,100
 Yeah, well, and then after that, we're going to close out the meeting.

905
01:35:38,100 --> 01:35:41,100
 I just want to be prepared for the next meeting.

906
01:35:41,100 --> 01:35:43,380
 Or to

907
01:35:45,100 --> 01:35:49,740
 Staying on topic, which we're going to use.

908
01:35:49,740 --> 01:36:04,420
 So city manager, you'd said tonight was meant to be about, you said there were four topics. I'm just trying to get those categories locked in. Tonight was we were reviewing some of the feedback we gave, but then

909
01:36:04,420 --> 01:36:12,220
 Maybe what at least I missed on the front end that specifically we were honing in on training and policy.

910
01:36:13,940 --> 01:36:26,020
 Yeah, and as well as transparency or reporting. How are we reporting on the instance. How does the community know, you know, what's taking place. How many complaints, we've had use of force compliance taser complaints so

911
01:36:26,020 --> 01:36:32,340
 Chiefs already started, you know, addressing the way that we're reporting that to its more open facing.

912
01:36:32,340 --> 01:36:41,300
 You've seen all the work that he and his staff have been doing on the policies. Is there anything that's missing and then the training. We did get a lot of valuable feedback from

913
01:36:42,340 --> 01:36:47,180
 From the committee here in terms of, you know, really questioning our mental health training in particular.

914
01:36:47,180 --> 01:36:57,100
 You know, and is there an ability to add coursework is their ability to partner more with you and T T W. You. These are all suggestions and questions from you guys that we are following up on

915
01:36:57,100 --> 01:37:03,900
 Immediately following these meetings. So it's been a lot of these iterative questions with the idea was, did we miss anything

916
01:37:04,380 --> 01:37:14,580
 And is there, is there anything else that you want to see as we're formulating these recommendations so we can get a report back to counsel. Here's all the questions that you had. Here's all the areas you challenged this and here's what we've been doing.

917
01:37:14,580 --> 01:37:21,180
 The next the next meeting is going to focus purely on forms of either reporting or oversight.

918
01:37:21,180 --> 01:37:28,500
 Because there's a lot of there's a lot of discussion out there about things that you know we possibly can do. And there's many things we can't do.

919
01:37:29,540 --> 01:37:43,740
 And so I think Michael will be able to shed some light on that. And then we're going to put those forms of various forms of reporting in and back away and let you have really focus on what kind of oversight or reporting, you know,

920
01:37:43,740 --> 01:37:55,900
 Oversight, would you like to see. I mean, do you think we should consider so it may not be obvious that you've done a lot of the heavy lifting, but by sharing that information. We just want to know, was there anything we missed.

921
01:37:56,580 --> 01:38:03,500
 And we, I guess, by making these incremental changes along the way. It's been a little maybe not so obvious to everyone.

922
01:38:03,500 --> 01:38:05,060
 Yeah.

923
01:38:05,060 --> 01:38:12,100
 Okay, thanks. So next week is just staying on topic. Stay connected to the oversight conversation.

924
01:38:12,100 --> 01:38:23,980
 It's going to be forms of oversight. What is what what's a possibility and what's really not a possibility and Michael will be able to take you through the state statutes on that and and try to explain that a little better as well.

925
01:38:23,980 --> 01:38:25,740
 Thank you.

926
01:38:27,540 --> 01:38:32,100
 We'll close out with Jamie and then we're going to close out. Go ahead, Jamie.

927
01:38:32,100 --> 01:38:42,020
 I just had a question that will help me. I think to Bo's point, I'm going to stay focused on those topic areas, but I'd also be curious. How do you

928
01:38:42,620 --> 01:38:57,260
 Madam Chairwoman, what, what is your preferred method for us to have some discussion and decorum that will get us to the end goal that you're looking for. How would you like us to interact with each other or share responses or things like that.

929
01:38:57,260 --> 01:39:09,380
 You can still share the way you've been sharing. We just have to keep time as a factor because we have a lot of information that we still need to get through and we still need to come up with the recommendations I would

930
01:39:10,380 --> 01:39:12,820
 I would hope that they would be brief and on topic.

931
01:39:12,820 --> 01:39:16,860
 Thank you. Okay.

932
01:39:16,860 --> 01:39:17,660
 So,

933
01:39:17,660 --> 01:39:30,180
 Cheryl, Cheryl, can I just say one thing. I just offer to the group, as in all groups. This is going to be a messy process. We're trying to zigzag back and forth from the wide to the narrow and I wouldn't measure the success of this group by the length of your list.

934
01:39:31,540 --> 01:39:44,660
 It's more the impact of what you come up with not you got 40 recommendations, better to have a few that are implementable than a lot that may just be well intentioned, but they don't really have recommended about what you should do. I'm just offering that as perspective.

935
01:39:44,660 --> 01:39:47,100
 And you'll be back next week. Right, Patrick.

936
01:39:47,100 --> 01:39:50,660
 No, because Michael is going to be just presenting the oversight. So I'll be taking

937
01:39:51,300 --> 01:40:06,020
 A week after that. Yeah, I'll be back on the 17th. All right. Yeah. All right. Well, we are finishing on our meeting and then we will see you again next week at the same time and then Patrick will see you on the 17th.